In a multimedia ontology concepts might be represented by multimedia entities (images, graphics, video, audio, segments, etc.) or terms. A multimedia ontology is a model of multimedia data, especially of sounds, still images and videos, in terms of low-level features and media structure. Multimedia ontologies enable the inclusion and exchange of multimedia content through a common understanding of the multimedia content description and semantic information.
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Ontology and Multimedia
Roberto Poli (University of Trento, Italy), Achilles Kameas (Hellenic Open University, Italy), and Lambrini Seremeti (Hellenic Open University, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch148
Abstract
Audiovisual resources in the form of still pictures, graphical, 3D models, audio, speech, and video play an increasing pervasive role in our lives, and there will be a growing need to manage all these multimedia objects. This is a task of increasing importance for users who need to archive, organize, and search their multimedia collections in an appropriate fashion. To cope with this situation, much effort has been put in developing standards both for multimedia data (natural and synthetic (e.g., photography, face animation), continuous and static (e.g., video, image)) and for data describing multimedia content (metadata). The aim is to describe open multimedia frameworks and achieve a reasonable and interoperable use of multimedia data in a distributed environment.